- Offers a critical perspective and challenges change management assumptions to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation of the subject
- New to this edition: new chapters on perspectives, power and politics, ethics, agents and agency, HRM and evaluation; a revised structure to reflect strategic, group and individual change; a revised final chapter on evaluating the practice and theory of change management; and an appendix of twenty popular change management techniques
- Online resources: annotated web links for students, an instructor's manual complete with commentary on questions and cases in the book, lecture slides and additional case studies for tutors
Managing Change
A Critical Perspective
Explore how and why change occurs, and how the change management process can be managed effectively with this popular CIPD textbook.
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Imprint: CIPD - Kogan Page
EAN: 9781843982418
Edition: 2
Published:
Format: 245x190
392 pages
About the book
Managing Change: A Critical Perspective explores how and why change occurs in organizations and how the change process can be managed effectively. Complete with an appendix featuring twenty popular change management techniques, it is an ideal core textbook for change modules on HR and business degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It offers a critical perspective, challenging the main assumptions and ensuring that the complexity of the subject is understood and appreciated.
This fully updated 2nd edition of Managing Change: A Critical Perspective includes new chapters on perspectives, power and politics, ethics, agents and agency, HRM and evaluation. Its revised structure reflects strategic, group and individual change, and a revised final chapter evaluates the practice and theory of change management. Online supporting resources include annotated weblinks for students, an instructor’s manual complete with commentary on questions and cases in the book and lecture slides and additional case studies for tutors.
About the authors
Mark Hughes is a senior lecturer in organisational behaviour at Brighton Business School, UK.
Combines a wealth of research with case studies and questions to challenge and engage students. One of few texts to fully cover the depth and breadth of change in an accessible way. Suitable for a range of courses, from specialist HR modules to broader MBAs.
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